The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-08-18
where prohibition has been a success and
but one plan which was efIectual inskeep.

where prohibition has been success and
but one plan which was efiectual In keep.
Ing the beverage out Of community
That was Of Som Poe, In California. In
that town, by some hidden AMI mysterious
manner every saloon that opened liz doors
was blown up with dynamite within few
days This succeeded. It came to pasa
that no more saloons were opened. j
have reluctantly come 10 bslieye that nc
proceeding much lesa severe than that oil
Som Foe can ever check the liquor,traflic,
The true r. NEEDY is in another way. PEG.
pie must be educated above It as they
have been educated avovs idolatry and
w'tchcraft and duelllng and other evils
that enlightment only can remedy. 1T
sf PROHIBITION ABSOLUTE. NJ
In this northwestern territory Of British
America 1t Is positively forbidden to buy,
cell, keep, popeeea or drink Intoxicating
liquor OK any sort or kind. II Is unlawful
10 nave a bottle OF whisky In ones poa.
seeeion: and to drink subjects one to a
tine oil ESQ, and 10 sell or oiIor for eale
sends one to the Stony Mountain peniten.
tertiary for not leps than elk monthu.
Ihle Ia q severe Law, and ample means
naVc been provided for enforcing 1t. l
dare say that the Government apends ten
times as much In trying to enforce this
law as It does In educating the peonle.
When we entered the Territory we we're
met By British soldiers {they cali them
mounted police) who searched our bag.
gage Tor LIQUOR. | don't know that they
found any. They found none in my Dos.
session. My valiee held my memorandum
book, pair OF buffalo horns which | had
bought OF an Indian, some geological
specimens that l had been collecting about
over e the country, acopy Of Keats, and a
little sack Of bananas which l had brought
from Ut. Paul, and maybe an old collar or
two. The aoldiers looked disappointed
and passed on. ] asked the conductor on
the train what would be the result II thew
should hnd whisky in some travellers
baggage. He said that II the traveller had
through ticket, taking him beyond the
Territory, he would not DO nolested. I'M.
leus there was something unusually aus.
picious about the matter. lF
At every station after that soldier
would walk through the train, but he sel.
dom searched any one. Tho whole coun.
try ia tull OF these aoldiers, or mounted
police. from end to end. They spead
their time riding about hunting for dis.
tilleries and for whisky, and troops Of
them scour The frontiers, particularly on
the south toward the United States, to
guard the passes by which liquor may be
struggled into tho country. ...M'r.yl
When We conaider that tho co,rtr,, I.
almost without inhabitants, and that all
the whisky In the world could do but
iittie harm here, the enormous foolishness
OF the System is Heon in all Ito features.
These lazy villains Of soldiers would per.
form far moro service to their country II
they were put 10 work at something at
which they could earn their bread. The
whole plan and purpose ia ridiculous b.
yond anything have ever heard OF. The
idea OF keeping soldiers ecouting over the
country to keep whisky out, when there is
scarcely one person to each ten equare
miles! l always did dispisa fool, and |
think that OF all the association OF fools
ever gotten toaether, those who made that
Law Tor the Northwestern territory, de-
serve to he desp;sed for ever above all
othera. &'EIa- ~ -
l asked Il cowboy with whom fell in
company II any liquor ever found ils way
into the country. Ho said that what pso.
pic there we're drank all they wanted and
IS often as they wanted it. They got
whisky in spite Of the Government, aud
every cent that comes into the country
goes Immediately 10 the United States or
to British Columbia for whisky, which is
smugsled in continually. was told that
the quantity Of liquor drunk is much
greater than. it was when there was no
law on the subject. The ENORMOUS ex.
pense at which the Government has pone
to suppress the traffic las amounted to
lees than nothing. It goes at it ia the
wrong manner. " never can be suppress.
Ell by force OF arms The school house
anu tho college is tho place to inculcate
prohibition, snd until it is done there, it
is absolutely useless to try to combat it in
the wide world. 'a7. Z -a..e1e. "
What would Weet Virginia do with
law like that OF AssiniboiA? Simply what
Ass'niboia is doing. It would 70 to great
expense, accomplish nothing and drive
the money out Of tho State, aud educate
race OF contrabauds and thieves and smug-
glera, just as Assiniboia is doing, ~.
| hope that what hsva written on this
subject will :not place me in line with
those who favor liquor and saloons. l am
as much opposed to the curse So any one,
and | am as willing to do as much as any
one, but do not wish to be in the same
crowd Go those who make such blunders
IS 10 try to suppress the traffic like the
Government OF Assiniboia is doing.
Nm.